Computing research in South Africa : a scientometric investigation

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dc.contributor.authorParry, Douglas A.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-07T05:20:55Z
dc.date.available2021-07-07T05:20:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Parry, D. A. 2019. Computing research in South Africa : a scientometric investigation. South African Computer Journal, 31(1):51-79, doi:10.18489/sacj.v31i1.674.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za
dc.description.abstractLimited attention has been afforded to mapping the ‘landscape’ of South African computing research. Prior studies have considered singular sub-disciplines, publications, or publication types. Given the growing prominence of computing disciplines, it is necessary to identify the patterns of research production, publication, collaboration, and impact of South African computing research. This study presents a scientometric investigation in this regard. Through the analysis of data accessed from the Scopus citation enhanced bibliographic database, the investigation presents findings in relation to annual research production, institutional differences in outputs, topics, collaboration, and citation impact. While characterised by institutional differences, over the period considered, South African computing research output has increased at a greater rate than that of South African research at large. Additionally, despite accounting for a greater proportion of all outputs, conference papers account for a smaller proportion of citations relative to journal articles or book chapters. Corresponding to previous investigations, there exists a tendency towards applied computing topics in contrast to more theoretical topics. Finally, the collaboration network was shown to be particularly de-centralised with many researchers clustered around institutions. The findings are of interest to all researchers conducting computing or related research in South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za/index.php/sacj/article/view/674
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent29 pages
dc.identifier.citationParry, D. A. 2019. Computing research in South Africa : a scientometric investigation. South African Computer Journal, 31(1):51-79, doi:10.18489/sacj.v31i1.674.
dc.identifier.issn2313-7835 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1015-7999 (print)
dc.identifier.orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6443-3425
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18489/sacj.v31i1.674
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110655
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectComputing researchen_ZA
dc.subjectComputers -- Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectComputer Scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectInformation resources management -- Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectScientometricsen_ZA
dc.titleComputing research in South Africa : a scientometric investigationen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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